Olympic hockey was originally structured to be played by amateurs, who were expected to adhere to genteel conduct. NHL hockey was and is commercial money-making entertainment, and therefore anathema to the Olympic spirit, based around clean, polite athletic competition.
Consequently, if players get into fights in Olympic games, they are penalized for "unsportsmanlike conduct", not "fighting", in order to ram the point home.
Olympic hockey was originally structured to be played by amateurs, who were expected to adhere to genteel conduct. NHL hockey was and is commercial money-making entertainment, and therefore anathema to the Olympic spirit, based around clean, polite athletic competition.
Consequently, if players get into fights in Olympic games, they are penalized for "unsportsmanlike conduct", not "fighting", in order to ram the point home.
I love this phrase “polite athletic competition.”
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